Child Injury Intensive Monitoring System

PICAMS: Post Intensive CAre Monitoring System

Medical staff on duty in hospitals provides high quality care for high-risk patients, especially those situated in intensive care units. Such care may present, in addition to great psychophysical pressure to the staff, considerable expenses for the hospital in question. In the paper we propose a Post Intensive CAre Monitoring System (PICAMS), based on the emerging technologies, which may eventu...

Physiological Data Stream from Monitoring System in Intensive Care Unit

In this paper, we propose a new system that takes profits of data stream technology. It aims to collect and store data arriving from monitoring system in intensive care unit (ICU). Then, it makes it available for the medical staff to analyze data and take the appropriate treatment for patients. In fact, monitoring system in ICU provides a large amount of data rapidly and continuously. Most of d...

Monitoring in the Intensive Care

In critical care, the monitoring is essential to the daily care of ICU patients, as the optimization of patient's hemodynamic, ventilation, temperature, nutrition, and metabolism is the key to improve patients' survival. Indeed, the decisive endpoint is the supply of oxygen to tissues according to their metabolic needs in order to fuel mitochondrial respiration and, therefore, life. In this sen...

Child Nonintentional Injury Prevention

Effect of intracranial pressure monitoring and targeted intensive care on functional outcome after severe head injury.

OBJECTIVE : Intracranial hypertension after severe head injury is associated with case fatality, but there is no sound evidence that monitoring of intracranial pressure (ICP) and targeted management of cerebral perfusion pressure (CPP) improve outcome, despite widespread recommendation by experts in the field. The purpose was to determine the effect of ICP/CPP-targeted intensive care on functio...